The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration blames the increase on drivers taking more risks on less-congested roads by speeding, failing to wear seat belts, or driving while impaired.
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United Airlines sees a supersonic future this decade
The airline says the plane being developed by a start-up company will reduce flights between London and the New York area to just 3½ hours and make Tokyo only six hours from San Francisco.
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White-knuckle thriller for AMC Entertainment as it sells stock into frenzy
The wild ride for the movie-theater company is the latest stupefying, nearly unexplainable set of moves for one of the ‘meme stocks’ that have rocked Wall Street this year
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Hong Kong media tycoon gets 14-month jail term over 2019 protest
Jimmy Lai and nine others were charged with incitement to take part in an unauthorized assembly by joining a demonstration against dwindling political freedoms in the city.
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Germany recognizes colonial killings in Namibia as genocide
It acknowledges the massacre of tens of thousands of people between 1904 and 1908, when it was the southern African country’s colonial ruler, and will pay $1.3 billion to help the communities affected.
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Rise in U.K. coronavirus cases stokes concern over third wave
There is growing speculation that the new variant of the virus first identified in India may prompt the British government to delay its next planned easing of lockdown restrictions.
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Senate OKs Biden nominees to postal board amid mail changes
Five of the board’s nine members are now Democratic appointees as the U.S. Postal Service seeks to raise postage rates at the end of August.
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Harris cites challenges of ‘fragile’ world in Naval Academy speech
The vice president’s keynote speech to the 1,084 graduates was the first by a woman at the 175-year-old institution.
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Stocks cling to modest gains and end the week higher
Gains in technology and health care companies outweighed a slide in communications stocks and retailers.
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CEO pay rose to $12.7 million in 2020 even as pandemic ravaged economy
That’s 5% more than the median pay for that same group of chief executives in 2019 and an acceleration from the 4.1% climb in last year’s survey.